Chief executive officers with CenturyLink, Inc., Frontier Communications Corp., Qwest Communications International, Inc., and Windstream Corp. are calling on the FCC to ensure that carriers are properly compensated for the use of their networks under the current intercarrier compensation system. In a letter sent to Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski Jan. 18, the CEOs said there is increasing concern that voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) service providers have unilaterally decided to decrease or end the practice of paying intercarrier compensation charges for IP-originated traffic terminating on the public switched telephone network.
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